Palace orders media groups: Explain undelivered aid to massacre victims’ kinhome/News/Headlines/Palace orders media groups: Explain undelivered aid to massacre victims’ kinMedia groups have been asked to account for financial aid that should have gone to families of those slain in the gruesome 2009 Maguindanao massacre. In a text message, Egco said Soccsksargen Press Club director Joseph Jubelag informed him about the resolution during an event in Sultan Kudarat last month where the massacre victims’ families were present. The Maguindanao massacre, which claimed the lives of 58 individuals including 32 media workers, occurred on Nov. 23, 2009. A group of armed men stopped the group, shot them dead and used a backhoe to bury the victims. Rule of law will have to be observed regardless of who the persons are involved in any particular case,” Palace spokesman Salvador Panelo said.

Source: Manila Times April 27, 2019 16:18 UTC